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Jeffersonville, IN 47130 - We used to have friends - I've always believed those words to be somewhat tragic - whom we met when we were neighbors in base housing and the husband and I were both attending the local university an education and commissioning program. Our kids and theirs were around the same age, and we'd frequently have Friday movie and pizza nights together. Things got weird before we graduated; the wife went a little off the deep end and had gone crazy over a lifeguard at the swimming pool. I started to go a bit nuts with her, as she was determine to prove to me that I wasn't as "in control" as I thought myself to be. We were making out, actually, when I got the call that my sister had died, which put the kibosh on any attraction I felt for her. After they moved away we saw them a couple times, and once I really thought she may have been trying to pick things back up with me, but I completely ignored that perceived opportunity; there's more than half a chance that it may not have been one, anyway.

A few years later we were invited to their daughter's wedding (in this zip code), and were even invited to stay with the family in her sister's fairly big home. We'd gotten to know the sister when she'd visited the family when we were in school. By now our middle daughter was married, or at least engaged; the "kids" were mostly bunking in the same room. The morning of the wedding, our friend talked about how one of the other young women came to her room in tears because she couldn't sleep due to my daughter's and son-in-law's snoring. She thought it was the most hilarious thing, so much so that she kept going on and on about it. Then, after the wedding when we were gathered in another location for the gift opening, she made a big deal out of regaling everyone with the entire "hilarious" account once again.

My daughter and son-in-law were deeply embarrassed and hurt. I think the other young lady may have been equally so. We soon left to go back to her sister's house, gather our things, and head home. The sister, for her part, was very apologetic over the entire incident, making it a point to express her disappointment in our friend.

I sincerely hope she has figured things out since then.